"Whatever lies you may believe are of no concern to the miracle, which can heal any of them with equal ease. It makes no distinctions among misperceptions. Its sole concern is to distinguish between Truth on the one hand, and error on the other. Some miracles may seem to be of greater magnitude than others. But remember the first principle in this Course: there is no order of difficulty in miracles." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 2, Section I, 5:1-5
"Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience, or the higher or spiritual level of experience. One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 1, Section I, 12:1-3
Grace and miracles are synonymous, like all the attributes of Truth. They each seem to highlight a facet of Being, but are in fact One. Have you ever been in an airplane, looking down on what appears to be an infinite ocean of white, fluffy clouds? The sense of expansiveness and joy that such a sight arouses is not to be taken lightly. That very 'sense' is closer to Reality than any bodily sight or sensation. It points to the miracle that is Grace.
The thoughts that arise from this sense of Grace are wholly spiritual (and holy, too!). The thoughts that arise from apparent physical sensations are completely projected and false... in other words, they generate a false sense of self and project a world to populate that false sense. As the quote from ACIM emphasizes, Miracles/Grace represent your true thoughts, the only thoughts that reflect Reality... the only thoughts that arise from the unified Mind of our True Self, which we also call God.
What happens, then, when we completely forget the misperceptions and misconceptions of the false self? What happens when we allow the ocean of Infinite Grace, the Awareness of One Self, to completely occupy our minds and hearts? What happens is that we allow Infinite Grace to live our lives. We allow the Miracle of Love to reflect here in the earth-dream, as it is in the Heaven of our Awareness.
The Miracle of Grace has no limits and no cost. It simply is, without condition or definition. And yet it gladly flows through this computer keyboard, embracing us all as we read and write this. That's what Infinite means. As ACIM puts it, this is the act of creation, to flow and expand, to radiate without limit or condition. Infinite Grace is our very Being.
"You were created only to create, neither to see nor to do." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 14, Section I, 4:4
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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